Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: n.d. Title: Editoriale Abstract: Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:5-6 Volume: 10 Year: 2006 Issue:2 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=29745&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:ecaqec:v:html10.3280/Ecag2006-002001 Number: 1 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Claudio Acciani Author-Name: Annalisa De Boni Author-Name: Giuseppe De Blasi Author-Name: Rocco Roma Title: Comportamento dei consumatori nell'acquisto di prodotti ittici. Innovazioni biotech e percorsi di scelta Abstract: Comportamento dei consumatori nell'acquisto di prodotti ittici. Innovazioni biotech e percorsi di scelta (di Giuseppe De Blasi, Claudio Acciani, Annalisa De Boni, Rocco Roma) - ABSTRACT: Consumer behaviours in fish purchases. Biotech innovations and choosing models Consumer behaviour in purchasing of aquaculture and fishery products were studied, evaluating consumer awareness about quality and traceability of products, food safety and security, breeding system and animal welfare. The former aim was to estimate consumers competences about biotechnology and ogm in fishery products, testing a selected apulian sample, extracted according to social and economical aspects, answering to an appropriate questionnaire, preliminary defined by focus groups with fishery and aquaculture sector operators. Different knowledge levels, together with socio-economic characteristics (age, income, level of education, etc.) affected consumers choices and influenced their willingness to pay (WTP) for ogm free products. Multiparametrical analysis, such as linear regression, was applied in order to detect the effects of the different independent variables on wtp. A higher wtp resulted from family income level and from a practice of biological products purchases. On the contrary the number of family members and the attitude of outdoors meals consumptions, were negatively related to wtp. The same samples has been submited to decision analysis by algorithm M5? to obtain a model tree that allowed us to stratify it, picking out different consumer?s kinds. Finally the model definition, obtained using Means-end- chain theory, better defined the consumer quality perception of fishery products and enabled to describe how consumers put in hierarchical order product?s attributes and values. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:7-29 Volume: 10 Year: 2006 Issue:2 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=29746&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:ecaqec:v:html10.3280/Ecag2006-002002 Number: 2 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gianluca Nardone Author-Name: Domenico Carlucci Author-Name: Rosaria Viscecchia Title: Prospettive della certificazione di qualit? secondo la Vision 2000 nell'industria alimentare pugliese Abstract: Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:31-52 Volume: 10 Year: 2006 Issue:2 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=29747&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:ecaqec:v:html10.3280/Ecag2006-002003 Number: 3 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Hakim Hammoudi Author-Name: Ra?l Green Author-Name: Gian Paolo Cesaretti Title: Organizzazione dei sistemi territoriali a vocazione agro-alimentare: dalla rete di prossimit? geografica alla rete di prossimit? virtuale Abstract: Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:53-92 Volume: 10 Year: 2006 Issue:2 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=29748&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:ecaqec:v:html10.3280/Ecag2006-002004 Number: 4 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Giuseppe Nocella Author-Name: Riccardo Scarpa Title: Benefits from safer animal food products: preliminary results from a contingent valuation study of Italian Households Abstract: Benefits from safer animal food products: preliminary results from a contingent valuation study of Italian Households (di Giuseppe Nocella, Riccardo Scarpa) - ABSTRACT: Benefits from safer animal food products: preliminary results from a contingent valuation study of Italian households The social cost of food scares has been the object of substantial applied research worldwide. In Italy, meat and dairy products are often the vectors of food-borne pathogens, and this is well known by the public. Most cases of food contamination and poisoning find their causes in the way food is handled after, rather than before purchase. However, a large fraction is still caused by mishandling at the industrial stage. With this in mind, we set out to estimate Italian households? willingness to pay (wtp) for a reduction in the risk of meat and dairy food contamination using contingent valuation. The survey design incorporated features specifically conceived to overcome difficulties faced in previous survey research, especially with respect to individualized food expenditures and risk communication. In order to achieve this objective a capi (computer-assisted personal interview) survey was devised to tackle two major issues which emerged in previous contingent valuation studies. The first issue is connected to the way of communicating risk to consumers in order to allow them to make optimal choices and the second one to the results deriving from these studies. In fact, estimates from contingent valuation regarding food safety are given just for single products and so marketers may find it hard to extrapolate them to the aggregate. Our results show that in Italy there are segments of consumers who would benefit from higher standards of food safety for farm animal products. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:93-109 Volume: 10 Year: 2006 Issue:2 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=29749&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:ecaqec:v:html10.3280/Ecag2006-002005 Number: 5 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Maria Carmela Aprile Author-Name: Azzurra Annunziata Title: Informazione, etichettatura e comportamento del consumatore: un'analisi sull'uso delle etichette alimentari Abstract: Informazione, etichettatura e comportamento del consumatore: un'analisi sull'uso delle etichette alimentari (di Maria Carmela Aprile, Azzurra Annunziata) - ABSTRACT: Information, labelling and consumers? behaviour: an analysis on consumers use of food labels Consumer demand for higher quality foods has been increasing, especially in high income countries, based on consumers? increased knowledge about links between diet and health; awareness of quality characteristics and access to information about new production and processing technologies. Labelling may be considered a very important tool to pass information about product attributes on to consumers. Labelling is aimed at providing a sort of identity card of the product, so as to make information immediately accessible to consumers making a purchasing decision. As a public intervention tool, labelling performs a number of functions; the most important of them is a direct support to consumers in their purchasing decisions. When performing this function labelling changes the information environment related to the quality attributes. More specifically, labelling makes it possible to turn experience and credence attributes into search attributes. In the case of experience attributes, imposing the inclusion of specific information in the label will enable consumers to judge the product quality even before buying it, in the case of credence attributes, consumers supported by labelling will be able to recognise specific characteristics of the product they wouldn?t otherwise identify even after consumption. Labelling may improve the perception of search attributes, increasing the amount and nature of the information available on the market. According to this, the paper analysed the role played by food product labelling as a tool to provide consumers with a direct support when making purchase decisions; it is focused on consumers? awareness and use of specific food label elements. Some empirical evidences are illustrated as to the level of consumer?s knowledge, interpretation and use of the information included in the label. Specifically the aim of the survey was: identifying how often consumers read the labels; assessing the degree of consumers? familiarity with the different data included in the label; identifying the importance attached to the various details included in the label; identifying which information included in the label mostly affect consumers? purchasing decisions; checking the existence of different clusters and developing a description of them. To collect data a questionnaire was developed and administered to a representative sample of 400 consumers living in Campania. The analysis of the data was carried out in two stages. In the first stage a uni-variate and bi-variate analysis was made, aimed at providing a description of the sample interviewed. In the second stage two multi-variate analysis techniques were applied to probe into the relationship amongst the different variables: factorial analysis and cluster analysis. This research provides for in-depth discussion on consumers? awareness, knowledge and use of food labels, as well as their capacity to understand label information appropriately and make food choices that meet their needs. The results suggest that many consumers are confused about how to use the information from some label elements and that they have varied levels of capacity to use them appropriately and successfully. The findings suggest that if consumers are to use information on more label elements (or label information more often), then they need to be enabled to do so, possible ways by which this could occur include via information, education and practice. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:111-129 Volume: 10 Year: 2006 Issue:2 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=29750&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:ecaqec:v:html10.3280/Ecag2006-002006 Number: 6 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Florent Besnard Author-Name: Ornella Wanda Maietta Author-Name: Massimiliano D'Alessio Title: Le motivazioni all'acquisto dei prodotti del Commercio Equo e Solidale: un'analisi comparata sui consumatori delle botteghe del mondo in Emilia Romagna e in Campania Abstract: Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:131-170 Volume: 10 Year: 2006 Issue:2 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=29751&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:ecaqec:v:html10.3280/Ecag2006-002007 Number: 7